Chester County native and Unionville HS graduate interviewed to replace James Comey at FBI

05/18/2017 11:40AM
● Published by Stone Lieberman

One of the
men interviewed by President Trump on May 17 to replace James Comey as
FBI director is a 1980 Unionville High School graduate.

Richard A.
McFeely, a former top FBI official, was a standout scholar/athlete at
Unionville, playing football and track and feild. He has a Bachelor of
Science degree in criminal justice from the
University of Delaware and a Juris Doctor degree from the Delaware Law
School. He is married and has three children. His father, Dr. Dick
McFeely, was a longtime chief of staff at New Bolton Center.

In a CNBC article posted Wednesday, it was reported that Trump planned to meet with four candidates for FBI director – former Sen. Joe Lieberman, acting FBI chief Andrew McCabe, former Oklahoma
Gov. Frank Keating, and McFeely.

Trump fired Comey last week
as he was leading an investigation into possible ties between the Trump
campaign and Russian officials.

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